Strange Loyalties
William McIlvanney
Jan 2007 · Canongate Books · Narrated by Mark Bonnar
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When his brother dies stepping out in front of a car, Detective Jack Laidlaw is determined to find out what really happened. With corrosive wit, Laidlaw relates an emotional quest through Glasgow's underworld, and into the past. He discovers as much about himself as the loved brother he has lost in a search that leads to a shattering climax.
When his brother dies stepping out in front of a car, Detective Jack Laidlaw is determined to find out what really happened. With corrosive wit, Laidlaw relates an emotional quest through Glasgow's underworld, and into the past. He discovers as much about himself as the loved brother he has lost ...
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William McIlvanney's first novel, Remedy is None, won the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize and with Docherty he won the Whitbread Award for Fiction. Laidlaw and The Papers of Tony Veitch, the first two books in the Laidlaw trilogy, both gained Silver Daggers from the Crime Writers' Association while the third in the series, Strange Loyalties, won the Glasgow Herald's People's Prize. Following his death in December 2015 the McIlvanney Prize was established; awarded to the best new Scottish crime book at Bloody Scotland, Scotland's International Crime Writing Festival.
William McIlvanney's first novel, Remedy is None, won the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize and with Docherty he won the Whitbread Award for Fiction. Laidlaw and The Papers of Tony Veitch, the first two books in the Laidlaw trilogy, both gained Silver Daggers from the Crime Writers' Association while...
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